Or you could get real and realize that people ARE spending billions of dollars on cures for both type I and type II DM. Just not Apple. Why doesn't Boeing do that? Or Hilton Hotels?
Apple is really just one moderately large company in an enormous economy. They don't have to solve everybody's problems.
Are there some issues about priorities in this world? Sure. Lots of them. But don't single out Apple or even the entire electronics industry.
"Space,is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..."
Doesn't really make a difference, does it? If $RandomNasty can get the product from somebody in China or Italy or the Seychelles what do they care? Maybe you could get a quick vacation to an exotic place without getting strip searched. Especially software. All you need is something to pretend it's a bank and an internet connection.
This sort of thing would never fly (so to speak) in the US. We could never put the stations anywhere near city center because it would take 100 years to deal with all the lawsuits from the permitting process. In the unlikely event that you could actually build it, you can bet your shoes that the TSA would have all those 'excess' scanners that they pulled out of airports (because they didn't work) placed inconveniently at the station. For your safety and 'security' of course.
And after you replaced your clothes and dusted off your dignity, sat down in a seat designed for an anorexic midget and made it to your designation, you'd find out that being at the City Center wasn't all that helpful because the rest of the mass transit system was an ancient, underfunded, broken down mess.
Yeah, but in an airplane you have to deal with your fragile assembly of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and a couple of patented molecules hunched into a thin, lightweight tube of aluminum and other insubstantial materials at speeds of a significant fraction of sound.
Whereas in a Hyperloop.....
And hell, the TSA would have their sticky little clutches in this industry before you can say 'may I see your passport, please'.
Nope. Survival of the fittest will always be the rule. It just happens that, at this point in time, 'fittest' means those humans closely attached to a complex, highly developed society that can make 747's, moon rockets and wildly complex drugs have a distinct advantage over previous humans and those unfortunates that live in New Jersey.
A cure would likely need gene revision or modification. Yes, it's a treatment. But if it turns out to yield a useable drug, it will sit on the shelf with a long line of 'biologics'. These are usually monoclonal antibodies (think Humira) and have been successfully used to treat a number of typically autoimmune diseases. They're harder to make than small molecule drugs and the biochemistry is pretty damned complex (read TFA if you can), so they're going to be more expensive than your typical bulk chemical.
And there is the profit thingy.
But insurers have been relatively good at covering them. There are some studies that show that they are so effective compared to standard therapy that even with the absurd price of the drug, the overall cost to treat a patient over their lifetime is comparable or better than standard therapy. They tend to have few side effects although the ones that they do have (nasty cancers) aren't so much fun.
But overall, they're a real improvement in medical care. Given their complexity, I doubt you could make them for anything less that $1000 a dose (wild ass guess) giving Pharma a generous markup. But relative to small molecules, they're a bitch to produce.
Nah, it looks like it will be a monoclonal antibody, so only around $10,000 per monthly infusion. That's the going rate for drugs that end in "umab" which is apparently latin for 'expensive'.
The bigger advantage is that you don't have to buy an entire laptop when the puppy charges through the unfrayed cable and thus launching the machine to the floor.
All of the documents would have been uploaded by their owners, but they may not have realized that each document could be made public, which is Docs.com's default uploading setting, compared to files created or edited with Word and Excel Online, which are private until set otherwise.
Nah. Just ramp up whole body scanners. We can make them, they're just a bit slow. A couple of years of research, a couple of billion dollars in grants and you can get on a flight for your well earned vacation only to find that you have terminal cancer.
Which isn't such a bad idea. Lots of T-38's still flying. New engines, new airframe and avionics and perhaps that plane could be have a viable market in and of itself.
If nothing else, it'll be fun to fly.
But the company really needs to get rid of the Microsoft level marketing... Boom? As in 'earth shattering ka-boom'? I think not.
Slashdot Mirror
This isn't the Wall Street Journal, guys. Slashdot doesn't even create a coherent summary, much less add the stock market ticker of the company.
Contact lenses that monitor glucose. Being worked on by an Alphabet company whose name escapes me.
Or you could get real and realize that people ARE spending billions of dollars on cures for both type I and type II DM. Just not Apple. Why doesn't Boeing do that? Or Hilton Hotels?
Apple is really just one moderately large company in an enormous economy. They don't have to solve everybody's problems.
Are there some issues about priorities in this world? Sure. Lots of them. But don't single out Apple or even the entire electronics industry.
light minutes instead of light years
"Space,is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. Listen..."
Man, I'd love some of them 'razor margins'. I could build a rocket company. Or be president. Or own a 767.
I weep for those razor thin margins.
My toaster has a processor. It is NOT a PC.
Doesn't really make a difference, does it? If $RandomNasty can get the product from somebody in China or Italy or the Seychelles what do they care? Maybe you could get a quick vacation to an exotic place without getting strip searched. Especially software. All you need is something to pretend it's a bank and an internet connection.
Shocked and surprised. Who could have possibly imagined an outcome like this?
In fact, who could possibly have imagined anything else but this sort of thing happening?
(Evil laugh.)
Aww, now you've gone and ruined it for everybody. You read TFA.
Everything?
Cool. I feel better already.
This sort of thing would never fly (so to speak) in the US. We could never put the stations anywhere near city center because it would take 100 years to deal with all the lawsuits from the permitting process. In the unlikely event that you could actually build it, you can bet your shoes that the TSA would have all those 'excess' scanners that they pulled out of airports (because they didn't work) placed inconveniently at the station. For your safety and 'security' of course.
And after you replaced your clothes and dusted off your dignity, sat down in a seat designed for an anorexic midget and made it to your designation, you'd find out that being at the City Center wasn't all that helpful because the rest of the mass transit system was an ancient, underfunded, broken down mess.
You must live in some sort of worker's paradise.
Yeah, but in an airplane you have to deal with your fragile assembly of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and a couple of patented molecules hunched into a thin, lightweight tube of aluminum and other insubstantial materials at speeds of a significant fraction of sound.
Whereas in a Hyperloop.....
And hell, the TSA would have their sticky little clutches in this industry before you can say 'may I see your passport, please'.
Yep, you're getting old. Can't remember what you posted a few minutes ago.
Then it's your car keys.
Then you're toast.
Well, I for one, would welcome our new physics overlords.
I'm really getting tired of the Standard Model, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.
Probably nonexistent cats, tensor math, horrible car analogies.
There just has got to be a better way.
Yo Mama!
(sorry)
Nope. Survival of the fittest will always be the rule. It just happens that, at this point in time, 'fittest' means those humans closely attached to a complex, highly developed society that can make 747's, moon rockets and wildly complex drugs have a distinct advantage over previous humans and those unfortunates that live in New Jersey.
This may change at some point in the future.....
A cure would likely need gene revision or modification. Yes, it's a treatment. But if it turns out to yield a useable drug, it will sit on the shelf with a long line of 'biologics'. These are usually monoclonal antibodies (think Humira) and have been successfully used to treat a number of typically autoimmune diseases. They're harder to make than small molecule drugs and the biochemistry is pretty damned complex (read TFA if you can), so they're going to be more expensive than your typical bulk chemical.
And there is the profit thingy.
But insurers have been relatively good at covering them. There are some studies that show that they are so effective compared to standard therapy that even with the absurd price of the drug, the overall cost to treat a patient over their lifetime is comparable or better than standard therapy. They tend to have few side effects although the ones that they do have (nasty cancers) aren't so much fun.
But overall, they're a real improvement in medical care. Given their complexity, I doubt you could make them for anything less that $1000 a dose (wild ass guess) giving Pharma a generous markup. But relative to small molecules, they're a bitch to produce.
Nah, it looks like it will be a monoclonal antibody, so only around $10,000 per monthly infusion. That's the going rate for drugs that end in "umab" which is apparently latin for 'expensive'.
Anyway, thanks for the real link, editors.
The bigger advantage is that you don't have to buy an entire laptop when the puppy charges through the unfrayed cable and thus launching the machine to the floor.
No solution is perfect.
Finally! It took them long enough to go after the ACs.
Generally from DJI....
Well, your information, not ours.
FTFA (and a major WTF)
All of the documents would have been uploaded by their owners, but they may not have realized that each document could be made public, which is Docs.com's default uploading setting, compared to files created or edited with Word and Excel Online, which are private until set otherwise.
Nah. Just ramp up whole body scanners. We can make them, they're just a bit slow. A couple of years of research, a couple of billion dollars in grants and you can get on a flight for your well earned vacation only to find that you have terminal cancer.
Progress!
Grrr. Edit less Slashdot...
Which isn't such a bad idea. Lots of T-38's still flying. New engines, new airframe and avionics and perhaps that plane could be have a viable market in and of itself.
If nothing else, it'll be fun to fly.
But the company really needs to get rid of the Microsoft level marketing... Boom? As in 'earth shattering ka-boom'? I think not.
Looks like they're re inventing the T-38